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Groton Daily Independent
Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 053 ~ 39 of 45
Lopardo, apparently the oldest person to die in the attack, was among three Italians killed in Barcelona, according to Italy’s foreign ministry.
In a statement, it said Lopardo was killed in the “vile terrorist attack in Barcelona,” without providing details.
News reports said Lopardo was an Italian who had immigrated to Argentina in 1950 and was visiting Barcelona.
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Silvina Alejandra Pereyra, 40, Argentina and Spain
Argentina’s Foreign Ministry says Pereyra, an Argentine-Spanish dual citizen who resided in Barcelona
for the last 10 years, is among those who died.
It says in a statement that her death was con rmed through family members living in Bolivia after a
cousin identi ed her body at a morgue in Barcelona.
The Argentine government expressed its deep regret over the pain caused to Pereyra’s family and friends
and said its diplomatic missions in Barcelona and Madrid are working to assist. ___
Francisco Lopez Rodriguez, 57, and Javier Martinez, 3, Spain
Francisco Lopez Rodriguez was killed with his 3-year-old grand-nephew, Javier Martinez, while walking along Las Ramblas.
Lopez was accompanied by his wife, Roser — who is recovering from her wounds in a hospital — her niece and the niece’s two children, one of them Javier.
“He was a lovely man, kind and charitable” and always telling jokes, said 81-year-old Natalia Moreno Perez from Lopez’s native Lanteira, a town of 700 inhabitants outside Granada in southern Spain.
Lopez left the town with his family in the 1960s to seek work and was a metal worker living in Rubi, a migrant town of 75,000 people northwest of Barcelona.
“We are a broken family,” niece Raquel Baron Lopez posted on Twitter.
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Luca Russo, 25, Italy
One of Italy’s three victims in the Barcelona van attack is being mourned as a brilliant young engineer
dragged to his death before his girlfriend’s eyes.
A determined Luca Russo, 25, already had a job in electronic engineering, no easy feat in Italy, where
youth unemployment runs stubbornly high.
“We were investing in him. We wanted to make him grow professionally,” the Italian news agency ANSA
quoted Stefano Facchinello, one of the partners in the Padua-area company where Russo had worked for a year, as saying.
The girlfriend, Marta Scomazzon, who was hospitalized with a fractured foot and elbow, told an aunt that “we were walking together, then the van came on top of us.”
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Ana Maria Suarez, Spain
The Spanish royal family sent condolences to Ana Maria Suarez’s family via Twitter after she died in the
attack in the resort town of Cambrils.
According to local media, the 67-year-old woman was originally from the city of Zaragoza, and was on
vacation with her family. Suarez’s husband and one of her sisters were injured and being treated at a hospital.
They had just eaten dinner and were celebrating the husband’s 69th birthday, walking in the crowded port area of Cambrils, when a van drove down a path hours after the Barcelona attack, according to El Mundo newspaper.
Suarez is the only civilian to have been killed in Cambrils, where ve attackers wearing fake explosives belts were shot to death by police.
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